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The LMC Galaxy is 5 million light years across and 163 light years away from the planet Earth. Book your ticket now to avoid last minute price hikes!

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The Milky Way is about 100,000 light years wide.

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Sixteen thousand light years thick at the core, thinning to 3000 light years thick out by us.

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How many light years ACROSS? About 80 million light years.

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100,000 light years = 945,870,822,545,242,600 km over 945 quadrillion kilometers

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From us, the distance is zero, since we live in a solar system

that is inside the Milky Way galaxy.

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The Milky Way spiral galaxy is about 100,000 light years in diameter, and about 3,000 light years thick at its center, and about 1,000 light years thick near its outer edge.

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The Milky Way galaxy is about 80,000 light years across, we think.

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About 100,000 light-years.

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Around 5 billion stars

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What is the ratio of the diameter of the milky way?

The ratio of the diameter (of the milky way) to what??


How big in diameter is the Milky Way?

About 100,000 light-years in diameter. (If you want to convert that to kilometers, multiply by 9.5 x 1012.)


How long is the Milky Way in light years?

The Milky Way's diameter is about 100,000 light-years.


What is the diameter of the milky way in kiloparces?

About 30,000 kiloparsecs.


What is the largest body of the milky way galaxy?

VY Canis Majoris, a red hypergiant in Canis Major, is the largest known star in the Milky Way Galaxy. It is about 3 x 109 kilometers (about 9 AU) in diameter, and located about 5 x 1016 kilometers (about 1.5 kpc) away from us.


How do you know the diameter of the milky way if you cant explore it?

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How dos your solar system campare to the size of the milky way galaxy?

When compared to the diameter of the Milky Way galaxy,the diameter of our solar system is very nearly zero.


What is the order of diameter of your galaxy?

Our galaxy, the Milky Way, has a diameter of about 100,000 light-years.


Size of Andromeda galaxy?

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What is the size of the Milky way?

Milky Way is 258,000ly in diameter, according to new observations. And is 1.5trln solar masses. highest mass they got is 2.3trln. but we now say its probably around 1.5trln.


How far across the milky way?

The Milky Way is about 100,000 light years in diameter and about 1000 light years thick.


Which is bigger the solar system or the milky way?

Considering the Solar System is part of the Milky Way Galaxy, that might give you a clue. The Solar System is about 4 light years in diameter, depending on how you measure it. The Milky Way is 100,000 light years in diameter.